Seòmar agus comataidhean

Questions and answers

Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Criathragan Hide all filters

Displaying 1617 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S2W-17157

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies advertisements were broadcast on commercial television in each month from January to April and from 1 to 5 May 2005; what the subject was of each advertisement; how often each advertisement was broadcast, giving the total number of broadcasting slots and the duration of each slot; how much each advertisement cost to produce, including agency costs, and how much it cost to broadcast each advertisement.

Question reference: S2W-17158

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies advertisements were broadcast on commercial television in each month from January to April and from 1 to 5 May 2004; what the subject was of each advertisement; how often each advertisement was broadcast, giving the total number of broadcasting slots and the duration of each slot; how much each advertisement cost to produce, including agency costs, and how much it cost to broadcast each advertisement.

Question reference: S2W-17160

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies advertisements were placed in local newspapers from 1 January to 5 May 2004, excluding recruitment campaigns and the publication of statutory notices; what the subject was of each advertisement; how often each advertisement was placed; how much it cost to produce each advertisement, including advertising agency costs, and how much it cost to place each advertisement.

Question reference: S2W-17162

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies advertisements were placed in national print media from 1 January to 5 May 2004, excluding recruitment campaigns and the publication of statutory notices; what the subject was of each advertisement; how often each advertisement was placed; how much it cost to produce each advertisement, including advertising agency costs, and how much it cost to place each advertisement.

Question reference: S2W-17161

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies advertisements were placed in national print media from 1 January to 5 May 2005, excluding recruitment campaigns and the publication of statutory notices; what the subject was of each advertisement; how often each advertisement was placed; how much it cost to produce each advertisement, including advertising agency costs, and how much it cost to place each advertisement.

Question reference: S2W-17155

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Rhona Brankin on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what research has been carried out into possible causes of the increased incidence of suicide among young people in recent years.

Question reference: S2W-17159

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of it and its agencies advertisements were placed in local newspapers from 1 January to 5 May 2005, excluding recruitment campaigns and the publication of statutory notices; what the subject was of each such advertisement; how often each advertisement was placed; how much it cost to produce each advertisement, including advertising agency costs, and how much it cost to place each advertisement.

Question reference: S2W-17151

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many fourth year pupils left school before the age of 16 in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The table shows the number of pupils in S4 who left school before they were sixteen, from 1999-2000 to 2003-04. Over these five years the data show that the vast majority (90%) of these pupils had their 16th birthday falling between March 1 and September 30 of that school year.

Around 3% of pupils leaving school in S4 are below the minimum age as set out in legislation. It is possible that many of the pupils in this group may have been incorrectly recorded as S4 leavers, as they turned 16 between October and February but had gone on to FE in another establishment.

Arrangements for leaving age are set out in section 33 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. Under the arrangements, if a pupil becomes 16 between:

March 1 and September 30, then compulsory education ends on May 31 of the same year. This means that the youngest pupils in this group could leave school around four months short of their 16th birthday.

October 1 and February 28/29, then compulsory education ends the day before the Christmas holidays between those two dates. This means that the youngest pupils in this group could leave school around two months short of their 16th birthday. Pupils in this group will normally leave school having completed one term in S5.

Number of S4 School Leavers who Were Less than 16 Years of Age on their Recorded Leaving Date, 1999-2000 to 2003-04 by Local Authority (Publicly Funded and Grant-Aided Schools Only)

Local Authority	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Aberdeen City	318	246	220	241	240
Aberdeenshire	310	292	307	283	302
Angus	151	160	142	149	152
Argyll and Bute	72	41	57	55	54
Clackmannanshire	65	72	59	76	80
Dumfries and Galloway	247	268	200	207	217
Dundee City	224	235	227	195	226
East Ayrshire	162	108	128	107	115
East Dunbartonshire	109	71	108	112	105
East Lothian	90	116	95	100	116
East Renfrewshire	67	51	51	61	62
Edinburgh City	404	317	327	428	370
Eilean Siar	31	21	30	28	50
Falkirk	174	148	149	138	115
Fife	464	444	389	440	478
Glasgow City	793	697	644	620	699
Highland	268	241	224	253	235
Inverclyde	118	85	85	87	70
Midlothian	152	99	112	126	134
Moray	97	137	104	119	132
North Ayrshire	207	157	145	159	187
North Lanarkshire	438	388	415	429	418
Orkney Islands	31	21	14	34	39
Perth and Kinross	120	135	119	126	117
Renfrewshire	245	225	204	195	210
Scottish Borders	127	100	118	149	145
Shetland Islands	26	29	32	34	26
South Ayrshire	160	116	124	127	123
South Lanarkshire	410	369	372	323	333
Stirling	74	49	77	75	64
West Dunbartonshire	109	104	108	119	129
West Lothian	264	212	240	208	195
Jordanhill	0	2	1	0	0
Scotland	6,527	5,756	5,627	5,803	5,938

Note: 1. Pupils’ age on the day they leave school is calculated using their date of birth and their leaving date as recorded by the school. The leaving dates are unavailable for 1999-2000 so information on the data for those years has been calculated with 31 December 1999, 31 March 2000 and 31 May 2000 being assumed as the leaving dates for terms 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

Question reference: S2W-17143

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Peter Peacock on 20 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive what each local authoritys capital expenditure on schools was in each of the last five years.

The table gives details of local authority gross capital expenditure on schools for the financial years 1999-2000 to 2003-04, compiled from local authority capital payment returns. The figures do not include Public Private Partnership projects, where the capital expenditure is incurred by the private sector partner, not the local authority.

Education- Total Gross Capital Expenditure (Including Payments Funded From Revenue)

Local Authority	£000s
	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04
Aberdeen City	4,516	2,883	2,339	3,188	3,812
Aberdeenshire	3,486	3,058	5,698	7,840	5,295
Angus	2,899	3,182	3,485	2,509	3,473
Argyll and Bute	3,336	2,530	2,894	3,003	2,612
Clackmannanshire	1,668	1,390	1,459	909	710
Dumfries and Galloway	5,456	6,445	6,802	5,901	5,659
Dundee City	4,443	2,360	3,181	5,878	9,401
East Ayrshire	2,966	2,139	2,322	3,848	3,715
East Dunbartonshire	2,648	3,777	3,233	3,861	4,554
East Lothian	5,672	2,566	2,894	1,942	2,101
East Renfrewshire	2,816	5,503	5,189	4,064	3,489
Edinburgh, City of	15,718	11,144	16,872	17,342	13,126
Eilean Siar	2,086	3,450	3,134	2,228	4,441
Falkirk	3,577	3,208	3,522	3,225	2,743
Fife	4,338	3,810	5,635	12,329	11,992
Glasgow City	9,765	15,173	10,618	10,801	29,016
Highland	9,868	8,623	8,846	8,859	7,589
Inverclyde	4,868	3,285	2,462	3,460	1,919
Midlothian	2,676	3,187	2,279	2,691	3,919
Moray	2,436	2,588	2,097	1,662	1,718
North Ayrshire	3,592	4,141	5,285	5,920	6,343
North Lanarkshire	5,798	6,949	9,218	12,520	11,808
Orkney Islands	6,226	2,689	2,097	1,384	947
Perth and Kinross	3,928	3,971	7,732	8,250	11,692
Renfrewshire	4,986	4,710	6,430	4,927	4,885
Scottish Borders	2,190	4,739	3,129	3,788	3,714
Shetland Islands	2,688	2,177	3,762	1,132	1,576
South Ayrshire	4,645	2,323	2,055	2,469	2,052
South Lanarkshire	8,422	7,592	7,273	6,034	9,673
Stirling	2,425	4,300	3,159	2,091	3,518
West Dunbartonshire	5,034	3,034	3,974	2,271	3,876
West Lothian	8,963	9,177	9,920	10,352	6,761
Scotland	154,135	146,103	158,995	166,678	188,129

Source: As reported by local authorities on Capital Payment Returns (CPR5).

Notes:

1. Education includes nursery, primary, secondary and special schools.

2. Figures do not include expenditure on Public Private Partnership (PPP) schemes, where the capital expenditure is incurred by the private sector partner, not the local authority. Authorities make annual payments to their PPP partners over the contract period in respect of capital works, services and on-going maintenance.

Question reference: S2W-17142

Asked by: Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2005
Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 17 June 2005

To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints have been made against each police force in each of the last three years and how many of these complaints were upheld.